My wife and I are going to Europe for 6 weeks. After Rome, we are planning to go from rome to Venice, then 4 days later go to Innsbruck. Then a week later after driving, we wanted to go to Paris from Salzburg. I had thought about getting a cheap airline ticket from Salzburg but those do not seem to exist. Therefore, do I get some sort of 3 day out of 30 days railpass and use it to ride the routes described above. Any suggestions?
Thanks!!!
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New York, NY, USA
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With only 3 train rides, you will do MUCH better with advance purchase tickets than you will with a rail pass. For Rome to Venice, use TrenItalia http://www.trenitalia.com/ or Italo http://www.italotreno.it/EN/Pages/default.aspx (a new company that competes with TrenItalia). For Venice to Innsbruck, use TrenItalia or http://www.oebb.at/en/index.jsp (Austrian Rail). For Salzburg to Paris, use Austrian Rail. Advance tickets are non-exchangeable and non-refundable, but are much less expensive than last minute tickets (or a 3 day rail pass, which will still require reservations on the Italian segments, at €10 per segment). To look at flights within Europe, use http://www.skyscanner.com. If you do not find a cheap one-way ticket, you can buy a round trip and just throw away the second portion (but not the first portion, or they will cancel the rest of the ticket).